Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: V4 - Early review

bluecity opened this issue on Dec 08, 2006 ยท 158 posts


arcady posted Sat, 09 December 2006 at 2:37 AM

Wardrobe Wizard is a starting point, not an end point. I usually do a lot of expand and retract and smoothing after an initial run through, then some joint editing, and maybe a little bit of magnet work that I might spawn into morphs if I start feeling cluttered.

With all of that, I've always been able to get good results. Perfect everytime? Maybe not. But functional.

The shape of base V3 and V4 is pretty similar, so there shouldn't be too many breaks. It'll be when you start bringing V4 items and putting them on the Freak or Furrette that it might get hairy.

To me, the new V4 seems to be a mixed bag:

Pros:

  1. more bendable
  2. more expressionable
  3. default body shape slightly more feminine.
  4. maybe more morphable. Need to see the proof though.
  5. bigger head means it might be easier to make her shorter, I'm guessing.
  6. If not for bigger head, scalable body parts will also help with shorter issue - so she can reach a normal 5'4-5'6".

Cons:

  1. painted on pubes and brows means hair color is chosen and locked by skin texture choice. This is a major concern unless texture makers finally stop painting on the pubes and brows so we can apply them with shader node masks instead - but they kept refusing to not paint them for V3, so I expect they keep doing it...
  2. still no external genitals, but enough polys down there that a solution -might- be possible
  3. breasts and chest fused as one piece is a return to 1999 until I see proof that it works.
  4. still taller than Yao Ming.

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